Jumat, 01 November 2013

Psychology and Relation With Food

Psychology and Relation With Food

Conversations related to eating and food is said to have no end .
Questions such as " where to eat ? " Or "eat what ? "
Always interesting to thrown . Scientific findings about the food was like it
never stops flowing . Human life is closely related to food issues . What can
we do ? Activities of eating and searching for food is indeed one of the
fundamental human instinct . Since humans first set foot on earth - even since
the first time there was life on earth - , activity - and chew - swallow - let
- digestive - system - care - rest has guaranteed the continuation of human
life . Thus, we can say that the search and enjoy a meal is one of the
fundamental aspects of human life . There's even a special part of the brain
that regulate these issues (to be discussed later ) .

But , for me that according to matchmaker site must click ' excess few pounds '
in the Self- Description , discussion of food issues do not stop at the topic
of ' places to eat well ' and ' new recipe ' . I also have to talk about the
dark side of eating and foraging activities , namely , the problem of ' hold
and reduce the size of the meal ' or in everyday language known by the word
DIET . Question of why people should be diet related to many things which if
translated to produce a single piece of new writing again . But in short like
this , or control diet eating instinct is closely related to two other basic
instincts , that is, the instinct of sex ( people who have extra few pounds
will be more difficult to get a pair ) and the instinct of self-defense (
people who have extra few pounds have a proven range of employment options a
narrower , so the ability survivalnya is lower ) .

Only, I was not alone . Even " friend " me equally face the problem
of diet and being overweight ( obese even ) very much - maybe one of them is
you . An editorial in the Washington Post stated that the rate of obesity in children
in the United States has increased three -fold in just two decades . Even Mary
Boggiano , my fellow colleagues psychology practitioners claim that sixty- four
percent of all people would have a weight problem ( which led me to ask , ' if
so , how do we determine the weight of "normal " ? Because the
normative mean people has a weight above the " normal " , right? ' )
.

Deviated slightly from the subject , half of sixty percent of human population
has a weight problem that is one-third of the citizens of the United States ,
which makes the country deal with the problem seriously overweight . All that
serious to the extent that they act silly sometimes . For example , in February
2008 to a fairly busy month in the state of Mississippi after some members of
the planning legislation passed legislation mandating the state for the waiters
to refuse to provide food for diners who are overweight . If this law to
political reality , rejection at the restaurant will be quite a massive recall
thirty percent of adults in Mississippi suspected of suffering from obesity .

Still slightly deviated from the subject , making the laws relating to food
does not just happen in the state of Mississippi . Even nationally there is a
law ( which is popularly known as Cheeseburger Bill ) which complicates the
consumer to sue food companies . This law was made after three people in 2002
who demanded fast-food restaurants ( which has the symbol golden arch ) because
they think fat calories in a burger restaurant made ​​it far above their
estimates , thus eventually making them obese . Although there was previously a
consumer who successfully sued tobacco companies which he said had made him
addicted to cigarettes , the demand for this restaurant is canceled by the
court and made ​​Cheeseburger Bill was triggered . Proponents of the
legislation Cheeseburger said that unlike tobacco , food does not make a person
addicted and the amount of food that enters the body entirely within the
control of individuals who eat them .

But is that true ? Psychology replied , ' yes and no ' . Conversation that
strayed from the topic led us to the main discussion that I want to convey .
Starting from the question ' is it true food can cause addiction ? ' Is the
answer that we have raised the question of how the brain works in regulating
the activities of eating , where knowledge of the brain work will help us to
understand the diet .

To answer it true that food can be addictive , we need to know how the brain
works in regulating feeding behavior ( here , I pay my promise above ) . In
2007 , the magazine Scientific American Mind discusses this issue ( under the
heading This Is Your Brain on Food ) . In the current issue of Psychology Today
magazine , this discussion resurfaced with the title Consuming Passions .
Explanation that I put in here is basically a merger of both the article. I
think this article also adds conclusion Diane Papalia et al . (author of Human
Development , discusses the book of human life from the embryo until his death
) which states that the main cause of human death is actually not decreased
function of the body ( degeneration ) , but rather due to a lifestyle that is
not responsible for ( among others , do not keep the pattern and feed
composition ) .

Well , let's discuss the process that the brain in regulating feeding behavior
( if you do not like the translation of the human physiological system , you
better skip down three paragraphs , calculated from this paragraph . I'm not
angry . Swear ! ) . Parts of the brain that regulate feeding behavior called
hypotalamus ( located in the middle of the brain ) . The side - outer ( lateral
) is part of what makes hypotalamus hunger , while the front - middle (
ventromedial ) hypotalamus is the part that gives a sense of satiety .

An empty stomach , a hormone called Ghrelin released by the body . This hormone
then , with the help of blood , until at Lateral Hypotalamus ( LH ) and LH
release substances make ' hungry ' that Neuropeptide Y ( the substance that
tells the body and tasteful hungry or want to eat ) . Ghrelin also inhibits
hormones that inform the brain that the body is feeling full or sufficient (
agents ' full ' ) , the pro-opiomelanocortin ( POMC ) . Thus , humans also feel
hungry ( or tasteful to eat ) . Not enough ? Body has a second mechanism , when
the body is less energy because of lack of food , the amount of blood sugar and
insulin in the blood decreases . This information is received and come to drive
LH secretion and Neuropeptide Y inhibits POMC production . More hungry ' lah us
if our brain is not obeyed .

Conversely , when stomach contents then we , blood - sugar levels and increases
insulin , thus lowering LH back Neuropeptide Y and let POMC to be present in
the brain ( brain so say , ' okay , we're full , all happy ' ) . There was also
relief of leptin , a substance which is presented by a substance that inhibits
the body's fat ' hungry ' and increase the production of substances ' satiety '
. In addition to blood, body feel full of information that also channeled
directly through the nerve , ie with a peptide called Cholecystokinin ( CCK ),
which tells the brain that the stomach is filled through a nerve . Full body of
information that may be channeled through the "shortcut" so that we
can immediately stop eating before the stomach is too full .

However, humans often stubborn . Often we hear people who do things , such as
homework, forgot to eat . Well , your body makes a different system to help him
get food security . This system is called a sense of pleasure . When food goes
into our bodies , a substance called dopamine is released into the brain - the
limbic system ( which regulates motivation and pleasure ) called the striatum (
part of the brain to feel the pleasure of food and orgasm ) . Dopamine gives a
delicious sensation to the brain . Thus, the activities of eating a fun
activity , which causes human beings will be happy to put food in his mouth and
causes the body to have assurance that the man will enter the food your body
needs to stay alive .

But , humans are creatures who have a disposition for pleasure . If he gets the
enjoyment of an activity , the next time that he wanted the pleasure , he would
repeat the earlier activity . Here, there is a separation between the two forms
of hunger . The first is actually hungry hungry , that hunger is caused by a
physiological process above ( through Ghrelin , blood - sugar and insulin ) are
referred to as ' hungry stomach ' . The second type is hungry hunger ( appetite
) to get a sense of pleasure from dopamine , the so-called ' brain hungry ' or
in our culture known as the ' hungry eyes ' .

Apparently , part of the brain that get pleasure from dopamine ( Striatum ) is
the same part that get enjoyment from narcotics . The statement was made ​​by
the magazine Scientific American Mind . Meanwhile , an article from Psychology
Today has a different view by stating that the food is actually a naturally
occurring substance that causes pleasure , while the drug is a substance that
causes the double pleasure of food . Whatever views you receive , it can be
concluded that food and drugs provide similar pleasure ( different in the
strong sense of pleasure ) so that , food may lead to addiction .

How about the way food is addictive ? This discussion will be entered dietary
problems . People who use drugs and people who are obese have one thing in
common , their brains are not normal . They have a hypersensitif dopamine
receptors , which makes little exposure to things they like ( drug or food ) to
make them become obsessed to get it ; exposure not only to taste the things
they like , but enough to see these items or see the others enjoy the goods.

But how the receptor can turn into a hypersensitive dopamine ? In laboratory
experiments , it was found that the style diet ' revenge ' alter dopamine
become hypersensitive . Intent -style diet ' revenge ' are on a diet to reduce
certain types of foods ( usually high in calories such as rice ) . The problem
, it was found that humans tend to have a period of ' revenge ' in which there
is a time between when a diet high calorie foods come in large quantities .
THEN hold the body style diet pamper the body by eating without this control
could actually make dopamine receptors become hypersensitive and makes the body
so obsessed with food such restraint . Hence , addiction to food ensued and the
man who had reached at this stage will have difficulty controlling food intake
into the body .

Another problem found was the body apparently does not have a system
reminiscent of that weight has reached over- weight or obese . The body has a
system that will only panic when body weight decreased . So , if you weight
increased from 60 kg to 80 kg , your body will stay calm . But , if it is then
your weight dropped from 80 kg to 79 kg , the body will be ordered that you eat
in order to get back to the point of 80 kg .

Therefore , psychology concluded that the best form of diet is a diet that is
logical , eat small portions under your current portion ( and decrease slowly
improved portion ) and do not listen to your body that ' panic ' to make you
hungry . Then , do the extreme cutting a type of food ; better you reduce all
kinds of food but in a tiered phase and a reduction in small increments . If
you gain weight , do not be handled by reducing the size of the meal ; should
tackle with exercise , even if at the time you are lazy to exercise